INDIANAPOLIS - An expanded field did not make the decisions any easier for the NCAA tournament's selection committee.
Actually, it made things tougher.
Chairman Gene Smith says the 10-member committee spent more time than he ever has "scrubbing" the field to determine which teams to put in and which eight teams would play in first-round games Tuesday and Wednesday night in Dayton, Ohio.
The first 68-team field in tourney history also did not ease the criticism.
Some immediately wondered why Georgia made it in, but Alabama, which beat Georgia twice this season, was left out. Or why Colorado didn't make it in.